Part 30 (1/2)

”By the very manly exertions of some of the old officers incorporated in the national army, the awful riot I have described was overpowered, and thethese, I should particularize Generals de Vomenil, de Mandat, and de Roederer Principally by their h partial mobs, such as you have often witnessed, still subsist

”I a you a full account of this last revolutionary commotion, that your prudence may still keep you at a distance from the vortex Continue where you are, and tell your ed to hi wounded! I knew nothing of the affair but froer He is an old pensioner of ood honest fellow You h hih he has had a li in intellect Remember that honesty, in enius

”My apart but what it was! Nus have been destroyed, nu all the horrors of these last days, it delights me to be able to tell you that no one in the service of the Royal Family failed in duty at this dreadful crisis I think we may firmly rely on the inviolable attachment of all around us No jealousy, no considerations of etiquette, stood in the way of their exertions to show themselves worthy of the situations they hold The Queen showed the greatest intrepidity during the whole of these trying scenes

”At present, I can say no more Petion, the Mayor of Paris, has just been announced; and, I believe, he wishes for an audience of Her Majesty, though he neverthe whole tilesina!”

The receipt of this letter, however it hness suffered, in common with the rest of the unfortunate royal inave me extreme pleasure from the assurance it contained of the firmness of those nearest to the sufferers

I was also sincerely gratified in reflecting on the probity and disinterested fidelity of this worthy eously to himself, with many persons of birth and education, whose attach scenes of the Revolution, which iance to which they were doubly bound by gratitude

My reatest care of The Princess neverto inquire after his health; and, on his recovery, the Queen herself not only graciously condescended to see hi his of his bravery and disinterestedness

I should scarcely have dees of the illustrious personages fro in a work of this kind, did they not give indications of character rarely to be met with (and, in their case, how sha occurred at a crisis when their minds were occupied in affairs of such deep iers which hourly threatened their own existence

Her Majesty's correspondence with foreign Courts had been so much increased by these scenes of horror, especially her correspondence with her relations in Italy, that, ere long, I was sent for back to Paris

SECTION XV

Journal of the Princess resumed and concluded:

”The insurrection of the 20th of June, and the uncertain state of the safety of the Royal Family, menaced as it was by almost daily riots, induced a number of well-disposed persons to prevail on General La Fayette to leave his arainst these outrages Had he been sincere he would have backed theat the head of his army, then well-disposed, as Cro the Lord through the blood of their King, and put the keys in his pocket Violent disorders require violent remedies With an army and a few pieces of cannon at the door of the asse the aid of the devil, for the accoht, as was done when the sae before the asse of Prussia had had engraven on his cannon, he lost the opinion of all parties

[In this instance the general grossly committed himself, in the opinion of every impartial observer of his conduct He should never have shown himself in the capital, but at the head of his army France, circumstanced as it was, torn by intestine coht of a popular leader at the head of his forces

Usurped authority can only be quashed by the force of legiti the only individual in France that in reality possessed such an authority, not having availed himself at a crisis like the one in which he was called upon to act, rendered his conduct doubtful, and all his intended operations suspicious to both parties, whether his feelings were really inclined to prop up the fallen kingly authority, or his newly-acquired republican principles prompted him to become the head of the democratical party, for no one can see into the hearts of men; his popularity from that moment ceased to exist]

”La Fayette ca would never see hied to return, with the additionalbeen deceived in his expected support frouard of Paris, whose pay had been secretly trebled by the National assembly, in order to secure them to itself His own safety, therefore, required that he should join the troops under his coht he could confide; a I would present them to the Queen without loss of time, as a man condemned to be shot had confessed to his captain that there was a plot laid to ht

”I hastened to the royal apart the motive; but some such catastrophe was no more than e incessantly expected, frouard, for the real purpose of giving easy access to all sorts of wretches to the very rooms of the unfortunate Queen, in order to furnish opportunities for co the crime with impunity

”After I had seen the Queen, the applicants were introduced, and, in my presence, a paper was handed by theed to leave her for the purpose of watching an opportunity for their departure unobserved These precautions were necessary with regard to every person who came to us in the palace, otherwise the jealousy of the asseuard of the interior ht have been alarmed, and we should have been placed under express and open surveillance The confusion created by the constant change of guard, however, stood us in good stead in this e took place unheeded in the bustle

”When the visitors had departed, and Her Majesty at oneof the palace, and I at another, had seen them safe over the Pont Royal, I returned to Her Majesty She then graciously handed me the paper which they had presented

”It contained an earnest supplication, signed byand Queen would sanction the plan of sending the Dauphin to the ared themselves, with the assistance of the royalists, to rescue the Royal Fa could be persuaded to show hi any active part, butreatest tranquillity

”The Queen exclaimed, 'What! send my child! No! never while I breathe!

[Little did this unfortunate mother think that they, who thus pretended to interest theelic Prince only a few months before, would, when she was in her horrid prison after the butchery of her husband, have required this only comfort to be violently torn from her maternal arms!

Little, indeed, did she think, when her ht of his being trusted to myriads of sworn defenders, how soon he would be barbarously consigned by the infae cobbler, Siht-boy of the excrements of the vilest of the works of huent of a minority, I feel that I should be inclined to accept the offer, to place myself at the head of the army, as my immortal mother did, who, by that step, transitimate descendants It is the h D'ORLEANS is actively engaged in atte the dethronement of His Majesty, I do not think the nation will subovernment, if the present be decidedly destroyed